Play Episode Podcast ‘We’re in this for good’: Amazon plans more home robots despite early skepticism about Astro Play Amazon unveiled Astro, its first home robot, in September, after developing the rolling Alexa device in secret for several years.… Read More
More AI for devs: Amazon unveils CodeWhisperer machine-learning ‘coding companion’ LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software… Read More
Amazon previews Alexa capability that synthesizes a person’s voice from less than a minute of audio LAS VEGAS — A short video of a child asking Alexa to have his grandma read the Wizard of Oz… Read More
With new warehouse robots, Amazon looks to invent its way out of its safety problems LAS VEGAS — Amazon unveiled a new fleet of robots and automated systems, including the first fully autonomous robot that… Read More
Amazon opens registration for re:MARS 2020, starring Jeff Bezos and Hollywood’s Jon Favreau How do you follow up on Iron Man? The answer for Amazon’s second annual re:MARS conference is to bring the… Read More
Satellite consultant outlines a way-out plan to turn space junk into lunar treasure What can be done with the thousands of dead satellites orbiting Earth? Some commercial ventures are hatching plans to get… Read More
Lockheed Martin studies how to use a cloud of satellites for space missions More and more computing is being done in the cloud, but so far, the cloud-based approach hasn’t been applied in… Read More
How AWS Ground Station is taking its giant leap for satellite links in small steps LAS VEGAS – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company has gotten so big that it has to branch out… Read More
Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s bet on Project Kuiper satellites — and copes with an onstage protest LAS VEGAS — For the first time in public, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained the rationale for his risky Project… Read More
Alexa gets smarter about combining AI skills, starting with dinner and a movie LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant will soon get savvier about juggling its thousands of skills — starting with… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gets a laugh out of his round with a robotic arm at re:MARS conference LAS VEGAS — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ handshake is at least as firm as a robotic hand’s grip. I found… Read More
Amazon Robotics unveils two new breeds of robots for its fulfillment centers LAS VEGAS — Amazon says there are now 200,000 robots working alongside 300,000 people at its distribution facilities around the… Read More
Amazon shows off new all-electric Prime Air drone that will start delivering packages ‘within months’ LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s drone ambitions took another step forward today as the tech giant revealed its latest delivery drone… Read More
Racer, rocketeer … and tour guide? Jimmy Shane shows off Blue Origin’s crew capsule at re:MARS LAS VEGAS — One of the big attractions at this week’s Amazon re:MARS conference is a mockup of the crew… Read More
At Amazon’s re:MARS fest, Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. unveils campaign to clean up the planet LAS VEGAS — Robert Downey Jr. has been saving the planet in Marvel movies for 11 years as a cinematic… Read More
Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in… Read More
Party like it’s $1,999: Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr. will headline re:MARS fest in Vegas Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based… Read More
Amazon launches re:MARS event focusing on AI, as second stage to invite-only MARS Amazon’s annual invitation-only event on machine learning, automation, robotics and space — known as Mars — has become a high-tech highlight for… Read More
